Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-07-13
The Princes Private Dairy.

The dairy proper, where the princess
makes thick, yellow cream turn into
fragrant butter through the medium Of
a dainty silver churn, has also much to
interest the visitor. The walls are COW
cred with tiles presented to the prince,
and which he had placed here as sur
prise for his royal dairymaid. These
tiles were made IN Bombay and are of
a peculiar peacock blue, in which the
rose, the shamrock, the thistle and the
motto "Ich Dlen" are ingeniouSly
intertwined.
Round the room runs a white marble
counter covered with silver pans por-
and princes Initials. These were flied
with cream coated milk from the sweet
breathed Alderneys near by
Broad bracket shelves OF marble held
numerous cows, bullocks and calves of
different sizes and every imaginable
material, including Italian and Paris
lar marble. alabaster, china, terra
Gotta and silver, all gifts y long milk
jug, painted by the Princess Louise TO
match the Indian thing, stood in one
corner. and opposite the door was the
mounted head of the princess pet
Alderney, with silver plate recording
her virtues and the number of prizes
she had won at shows.
On a marble table stood simple
gilt and white china tea set and pile
of napkins marked with the royal
stamp. This is for the benefit OF stray
visitors from the hall who wanted a
drink of fresh milk. 1 had a drink
myself, and as there is no place nearer
| than three miles where one can gel
refreshments, il tasted particularly
good.
In the adjoining room, neatly tiled
| from floor to ceiling, the butter for the
hall is made, and when the family are
| in London it is sent up fresh every
morning. The days supply was laid
| out on white platters previous to being
packed, and very tempting 1t looked,
and very delicious it tasted. 1t was
made up in little pats and scrolls,
Strawberries and balls, all ready foi
| the table. With an air OF pride Dame
| Barber said: "If you look here, mum,
| pointing to a dish on one side, you !.
see his highness'; oyer and particular
| have to be about it; not grain or sa!'
| TO go in; only taste like In the cream,
and the pats 10 be Just so thick, and
not as big round as the other.
] L
with interest. Yes, they were the size
/ of a half dollar, the thickness OF three
and bore In rich butter relief either th'
crown. the coat of arms, or the three
feathers of his royal highness-
almost worried me to think of III
prince at every meal ingulfing his Goa
of arms, feeling his crown melt III III
mouth; and would the feathers by an
possibility tickle his noble throat a
they glided down. l wondered
With the butter packed IN shallow
baskets or hathpers, go little pals o
cream and milk, the pals burnside,
pewter with brass trimmings and C "a
OF arms, and quantities OF fruit anI
produce from tue garden
Does the princess make butte
osteuPn l asked before leaving tn
pretty dairy, In which the miEgle'
odor of blossoming flowers ald fresl
butter We'd with any scent liimmeI ca
produce
.Lor', num-" answered the plum
guardian OF the place, "her 'lghnes
used to come reg g'lar, and she'd churi
away till the Ied flew up IN her cheek
like. trying to make the butter come
and she would not let me lay hand L
it; but this year she WAS that took Il
with skatIn', which was uncommO
coOl, that she only came IN twice q
three times to the butter room Bu
her highness cam9 IN nigh every da
when she'd been having trot about I'll
park or the village to take a cup OF te
with the ladies, and tLea she d sen
the lad for Strawberries al a loaf